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Thursday, September 26, 2013

The Greatest want. In the whole wide world.

I guess I decided to post something,
finally, that is actually in line with the title to this blog.

In all seriousness, I think that maybe
this is one of the biggest little issues that we face as Christians
today, and it is the cause of no small trembling in my heart.

It's the home.

Not the church, not the world, not
those foreign lands I spend much of my waking hours dreaming of
reaching...

No, I'm cutting to the quick of my own
soul, and taking a serious look at my life, and the course it must
take to be a useful one.

There is
a greatest want. It is this:

“The
greatest want of the
world is the want of men,--men who will not be bought or sold; men
who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to
call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty
as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right
though the heavens fall.”

--Education, p. 57.

Let me interject,
that this is not only for men, although it may especially apply to
men. It is for every soul who call themselves Christians.

It takes no genius
to see that the world is lacking in such characters.

And who am I to think that I can
easily escape that?

Filling
that greatest want will not
happen by chance.

Also.

“A
well-ordered family is one of the best testimonies
we can present to the world of the value of our religion. This living
testimony has more weight than sermons and professions.”

--RH, March 1,
1892.

The
Lord is challenging me. It is no light challenge. Maybe He is
challenging you. Will you take the challenge, by His grace?

It is
no easy thing to fill that greatest want. Think not that it will be
without a struggle to gain ground where others have fallen.
Presenting that living testimony that is better than sermons &
professions will not happen by chance.

But I want to do
it. No matter the cost.

And
then those other fields of labor will be nothing but paper giants,
when we have once conquered the real
giant: self. May it be true for us.

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"The humble, self-denying life of our divine Lord we are to keep constantly in view. And then as we seek to imitate Him, keeping our eye upon the mark of the prize, we can run this race with certainty, knowing that if we do the very best we can we shall certainly secure the prize. . . ."

--In Heavenly Places, pg. 276.

This blog's inspiration...

"The greatest want of the world is the want of men--men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall."